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Sweetening the Pill: Have we failed to be sufficiently critical of hormonal birth control?

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Holly Grigg-Spall, the author of Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. In the book, she looks at women’s experiences with the birth control pill, asking why, while millions of women take it every day, few really know how this drug works or the potential side effects.

Has the feminist movement been insufficiently critical of hormonal birth control?

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